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<title>Main St. voters ponder election, live the issues</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185738454</link>
<pubDate>30 Aug 2008 13:18 GMT</pubDate>
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...  like Sunbury, Pa., Wake Forest, N.C., Fremont, Calif., and Miami Beach -- where more Americans  ...  just a lack of work. She has Medicaid, but it runs out next month. Social  ...
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<title>Telemedicine&apos;s growing pains</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185649380</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 21:56 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. However, he said he sees  ...  Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nevertheless, economic pressures in the next  ...
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<title>State Health Care Reform: Retargeting Medicaid Hospital Payments to Expand Health Insurance Coverage</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185635106</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 20:14 GMT</pubDate>
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... State Health Care Reform: Retargeting Medicaid Hospital Payments to Expand Health Insurance Coverage  ...  the other public and teaching hospitals in California and far more than the three other  ...
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<title>Hospitals Taking Steps to Avoid Loss of Public Funds</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185633049</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 19:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Mercy receive roughly half their net patient revenues from reimbursements made by Medicare and Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. Scripps Mercy Chief Executive Tom Gammiere said hes confident the state will accept the  ...
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<title>Report: One in five Merced County residents living in poverty</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185544621</link>
<pubDate>29 Aug 2008 04:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  its residents are among the poorest in California and the nation. New data from the  ...  by government-provided insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid/MediCal rose. ...
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<title>Vital Signs: With 45 million lacking coverage, pressure still on health system</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185516891</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:38 GMT</pubDate>
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...  importance of strong safety-net programs such as Medicaid and the state children&apos;s health insurance program,  ...  she said. &quot;There were major proposals in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Those have floundered. You haven&apos;t  ...
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<title>With 45 million lacking coverage, pressure still on health system</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185515440</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 23:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  importance of strong safety-net programs such as Medicaid and the state children&apos;s health insurance program,  ...  she said. &quot;There were major proposals in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois. Those have floundered. You haven&apos;t  ...
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<title>A Moral Prescription</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185466619</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 17:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  too high to qualify for coverage under Medicaid, but who lack access to affordable private  ...  Jr. signed the bill into law. PICO&amp;rsquo;s California office supports , California legislation that would  ...
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<title>California Health Officials Seek Suspension Of Injunction Against Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rate Reduction</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185465595</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 17:28 GMT</pubDate>
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... California health officials have asked U.S. District Judge  ...  care providers, the reports. Medi-Cal is California&apos;s Medicaid program (Egelko, , 8/27). In February, California  ...
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<title>Editorial: Health IT symphony orchestra</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185448807</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 15:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  health record services. In the public sector, California and Minnesota have announced PHR projects. And  ...  health IT, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have started several pilot projects involving  ...
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<title>Appeals court lets counties sue drugmakers</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185429123</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 13:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  manufacturers under the drug law. The 1992 law requires companies supplying medicines to the Medicaid program - called Medi-Cal in California - to sell them to public hospitals at a specified percentage of their average  ...
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<title>RomneyCare Should Keep Mitt off Mac&apos;s Ticket</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185382699</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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... TEMECULA, California -- Just as most folks maintain a  ...  in annual income. Another 55,000 people joined Medicaid, which is funded by local and federal  ...
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<title>Texas Still Leads Nation In Rate Of Uninsured ResidentsLoading...</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185356975</link>
<pubDate>28 Aug 2008 04:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  percentages were given only for two-year periods.) California still has the highest number -- not  ...  came as more Americans shifted to government Medicaid and Medicare coverage, said Ron Pollack, executive  ...
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<title>STEVE JACOB: Obama sets himself an unbelievably difficult timeline to reform health-care delivery</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185331931</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 23:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  guidelines. The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California did just that for six years. The  ...  in the 47 million uninsured by expanding Medicaid and the State Children&apos;s Health Insurance Program.  ...
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<title>Medicare Assailed for Extent of Fraud</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=185323562</link>
<pubDate>27 Aug 2008 22:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  on Oversight and Government Reform, headed by California Democrat Henry Waxman, to call for hearings  ...  Committee, lambasted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the program, for irregularities  ...
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